My work can be best described by the stylistic concept of ‘abstract expressionism’. To me the abstract representation of reality is part of a quest to find a visual language that allows me to express the authenticity and intensity of my experience of reality. Of course this experience is very personal. Because to me what we call ‘reality’ is in fact mostly hidden behind the visible and directly observable.
In the abstract representation of reality I search for the origin of form. The seed of the potential color-form relationship is like a child in the womb: everything is still in its embryonic phase and although the structure of the origin is present, the final configuration of conventional (often conflicting) images is yet open and receptive to a wide range of possibilities. To me this originality and the things that could grow out of it stand for life itself and the processes that shape it.

Auke Mulder (1946), is an artist living and working in Julianadorp, The Netherlands.